Dimly-lit rooms thick with smoke, the clink of glasses, and the soft thump of a saxophone being tuned set the stage for nights when jazz reigned supreme. Long before DJs and Spotify playlists, jazz ...
Named in part for Johnny Dunn’s pioneering Jazz Hounds, the group channels each member’s heritage into vivid performances that honor the complex, cosmopolitan roots of Black popular music in the early ...
All 20 color plates from Henri Matisse’s “Jazz” book are on view at the Art Institute of Chicago for the first time since being acquired by the museum in 1948.